Atmosphere-ocean InteractionClarendon Press, 1972 - 275 pages |
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... processes ; at least , they can minimize their interaction with ' irrelevant ' phenomena . This is not possible when one deals with the natural environment . Nature is a stage upon which many different physical processes interact ...
... processes ; at least , they can minimize their interaction with ' irrelevant ' phenomena . This is not possible when one deals with the natural environment . Nature is a stage upon which many different physical processes interact ...
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... processes of wave - wave interactions and of wave breaking . The wave energy is affected by these processes as much as it is affected by an input from the wind . In fact , in a fully developed sea the net supply of energy to any wave ...
... processes of wave - wave interactions and of wave breaking . The wave energy is affected by these processes as much as it is affected by an input from the wind . In fact , in a fully developed sea the net supply of energy to any wave ...
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... processes tend to produce relatively deep mixed layers which are characterized by little . shear and an almost neutral lapse - rate on both sides of the air - sea interface . The corresponding intensification of the temperature gradient ...
... processes tend to produce relatively deep mixed layers which are characterized by little . shear and an almost neutral lapse - rate on both sides of the air - sea interface . The corresponding intensification of the temperature gradient ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE STATE OF MATTER NEAR THE INTERFACE | 42 |
SURFACE WAVES | 98 |
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advection air-sea amplitude angle approximately atmosphere baroclinic barotropic Brunt-Väisälä frequency bubbles cause changes circulation cloud components constant convection convergence Coriolis force Coriolis parameter cyclonic decrease density anomaly direction dissipation drag coefficient eddy effect Ekman layer equation expression flow fluctuations fluid flux frequency friction function geostrophic gravity waves group velocity height horizontal hurricane increase inertial infrared instability integral interactions interface inversion ITCZ latitude layer depth mean meridional mixed layer moisture molecular momentum motion observations ocean oscillations parameter perturbations phase phase velocity planetary boundary layer potential temperature pressure gradient processes propagation radiance radiation ratio region relatively represents resulting Reynolds number Reynolds stress Rossby waves scale sea surface sea-surface temperature shear specified spectrum storm surface temperature term thermocline transport tropical turbulent upwelling variable variations vector vertical viscosity vorticity wave number wavelength wind stress wind velocity zero zonal дх